Emotet, one of the most pervasive and destructive botnets in use today, first appeared in 2014. Despite its age, Emotet is still going strong and shows no signs of disappearing anytime soon.

Security and productivity are two key areas of priority for any business leader. With the current trends in cybersecurity and remote work, companies want to provide access to capabilities that the digital workforce needs, with minimal impact on their experience and minimal risk. In the search for a good balance between data security and productivity, is cybersecurity awareness training enough? Some even find it a challenge.

Organizations can create a level of greater trust between digital businesses and their customers by using sophisticated bot management solutions, as we understand from a recent Gartner ® report. ‘Don’t Treat Your Customer Like a Criminal’, by Gartner analysts Tricia Phillips, Jonathan Care and Akif Khan, is available for a complimentary download from the Netacea website until 31st July 2022.

From day one, Snyk’s vision has been to enable development and security teams across the world to develop fast while staying secure. A key component of this vision is ensuring our customers feel confident in using our developer security platform. This is why we place the utmost importance on keeping our customers’ data safe and helping them address their security and compliance requirements.

When we think of “authentication” for our applications, most of us think of user registration, a login form, and resetting passwords. Our concerns begin and end there. But as we dive deeper and our security and compliance requirements change over time, we have to consider new password hashing algorithms, blocking bots, multi-factor authentication, and external identity providers. What started as a clear, concise set of requirements became an ever-growing list.

In October, we introduced a new way for 1Password customers to securely share virtually anything in their 1Password vault with anyone – even if the recipient doesn’t use 1Password.

In the past year, research indicates that nearly a third of organizations have accelerated their plans to automate key security and IR processes, while another 85% plan on automating them in the next 12 months. Despite the positivity of these statistics, many organizations struggle to change to a more automated process. This was highlighted at a recent webinar we held with a panel of senior cybersecurity experts from a multitude of sectors.